Tupelo Honey Cafe {Cookbook Giveaway}

Saturday, November 10, 2012

I don't know about you, but I am a cookbook addict! I love to read them and get inspired. I was recently contacted by the folks at the Tupelo Honey Cafe. They wanted to offer the Plain Chicken readers a chance to win a copy of their beautiful cookbook and let you know about their holiday recipe contest.

The Tupelo Honey Cafe dishes up Southern comfort food. They are early pioneers in the farm-to-fork movement. They have two locations in Asheville, NC. They recently opened a new location in Knoxville, TN and have another restaurant slated for Johnson City, TN in 2013.

The cookbook is filled full of beautiful photos and incredibly delicious recipes.

Here are a few that caught my eye.

Blackened Catfish with Sunshot Salsa

Southern Fried Chicken BLT

Tomato Pie

Tupelo Honey Ginormous Biscuits

I plan on making these for breakfast tomorrow morning!

Tupelo Honey Ginormous Biscuits

6 biscuits

2 cups bread flour

1 Tbsp baking powder

1/4 tsp baking soda

2 Tbsp sour cream

1 1/2 tsp salt

3/4 cup unsalted butter, frozen

1/2 - 3/4 cup buttermilk

1 Tbsp butter, melted

Preheat oven to 450.

Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, sour cream, and salt in a large bowl. WIth a cheese grater, grate the frozen butter using the largest holes; quickly cut the butter into the flour mixture with a pastry cutter or fork until the mixture resembles coarse meal. Add the buttermilk to the flour mixture, a little at a time. Stir just enough so it clumps together and is no longer crumbly. Do not overmix.

On a floured surface, turn out the dough and roll out to a 1-inch thickness. Using a 3-inch biscuit cutter, cut the biscuits and place on a sheet pan. Cook on top rack of the oven for 20 minutes, or until light brown, and remove from the oven. Brush the melted butter on top of each biscuit and return to the oven for about 5 minutes longer, or until the biscuits are golden brown.

Want to win your own copy of this cookbook?

Leave a comment on this post and tell me what is your favorite Southern recipe is.

The giveaway runs until 11:59pm Wednesday, November 14th, 2012.

The giveaway is only open to USA residents. Be sure a valid email address is included with your comment. Winner will be chosen randomly and announced on this post. We will email the winner and if the winner doesn’t respond in 48 hours, a new winner will be chosen. Good luck!

Chess pie - "just pie" - that classic and, oh so simple southern dessert. I love that it can pretty much be made from ingredients I always have (butter, sugar mostly) and that it can be "gussied up" with cocoa or pecans or lemon juice or even coconut.

We just ate at the Tupelo Honey in downtown Asheville last week - the biscuits are a-ma-zing. I'm planning to make a batch tomorrow, too - I have the cookbook out of the library, but would love to win my own copy.

I grew up in the South & moved to Michigan a year ago. I miss Southern cooking! My favorites are Jambalaya, fried Green Tomatoes, and grits with anything! Oh, and I've been seriously craving some Boiled Peanuts!

I love grits, grits that have been cooked slowly over the stove for a long time. Yum. This looks like such an awesome book. Just looking at the Southern Fried Chicken BLT makes my mouth water!! Thanks for the giveaway.

I have too many favorites but if I have to choose, I would say biscuits and gravy or mac and cheese ("macaroni pie", as it's known in our family!) And any dessert containing coconut :-). This cookbook looks amazing and I would love to add it to my collection - thanks for the opportunity to win!

Mmmm...since I've lived in the south my whole life I have a zillion favorite recipes but I do have to say my favorite is Mac and Cheese or Fried potatoes...makes me miss Sunday lunches at my Grandmothers! :)

I had lunch at The Tupelo last summer! What a great place. My favorite? After a life of Southern food? It would have to be the Shrimp and Grits that my youngest son and I make every year at Sunset Beach, NC. Seriously good!

I live in the South and there are so many recipes that have been handed down that are my family's favorites. For me it's a tie between a truly grand pound cake and my own creation of pimiento cheese. Both dishes are asked for again and again at work pot luck dinners.

My parents moved to the south about 10 years ago. My mom has made some great dishes she learned from her new southern friends. I loved the way they make sweet potatoes without marshmallows on top but a sweet pecan yumminess. lismarier89@yahoo.com

As an Asheville hometown girl, I had this cookbook Bible as part of my collection...unfortunately, it had been passed around so much it was in terrible shape then eventually it didn't make its way back to me. :( Some of my faves are Shrimp & Goat Cheese Grits, Sweet Potato pancakes,pimento cheese, & real sweet tea (the kind you just cant get in Chicago!)

I am from the South, so eating "Souther" food is normal for me. My mother and grandmother are/were both AMAZING Southern cooks. My mom was raised in the cotton fields, and all her recipes are from scratch. My favorite recipe is probably biscuits and gravy. My husband made fresh gravy for his guy friends this weekend on their get-away, and none of them had ever had it from scratch. They all thought it came from a packet. How sad!

My fave Southern food is my Momma's cornbread dressing! And homemade Pimento Cheese! Oh there are so many! We ate at Tupelo Honey in downtown Asheville Saturday and I have to say, that was the absolute BEST biscuit I have ever had. My husband agreed. We will definitely stand in line to get another one next time we are in Asheville.

I've been in Birmingham about a year now and as a transplant southerner I'd have to say my favorite southern dish is fried chicken! That cookbook is beautiful and I'd love to increase my southern cooking options :)

I love, love, love biscuits! Growing up, our neighbor's mom (that is, the mother of the wife) used to make them with lard. Bad for you, I know, but so good. And she never measured. A true Southern cook!

Love, love, love your blog! My hubs is a die hard Crimson Tide fan, so every time I make one of your recipes, I have to point out to him that it came from an Auburn grads blog, lol. Anyway, my favorite southern recipe would have to be red velvet cake. I had never heard of it until my husband asked me to make one from his Grandmothers recipe about 15 years ago. Now it seems red velvet has popped up everywhere!